Michael Duckett
@mducked
Drawing (urban sketching, comics, zines + lifedrawing) Bradford. Northumberland. Wildlife and the outdoors.
Is this a comic? Small sluggish elements from a giant charcoal workshop at the weekend.
I'm running a charcoal workshop at this event on Saturday in #Keighley Lots more on too.
Here are bits of my latest #comic which is about the walk from my #Baildon childhood along the #leedsliverpoolcanal Pages (A2 size) are displayed today today in (a) #Shipley marketplace, (b) #Rodley Tiny Tea rooms, and (c) at #lilac co-housing in #Kirkstall as part of the #KirkstallArtTrail
Today I organised for us lot in the #PaperJamComicsCollective to do a #Riso workshop with #foundationpressat the #baltic Next step is to make one, or two, comics together by this process.
Solstice walk up 2 Marilyns by #Skipton and a sketch of a concert in the town hall there, by #Bradfordfestivalchoir
I went from a year to do startfinish this piece, to a couple of months, to 5 days, to 2 days, without really knowing what was happening. Was intended to be the first drawing I did at slow careful measured pace rather than last minute scrappy rush. 1 day to complete.
Recent #urbansketch #drawings 1 #Kirkstall 2 #Durham 3 #Bradford 4 #Hexham May was knackering. Maybe did too much.
Pasting up drawings of pasteups on #Duckettlane like the self referring circle jerk I am. #Bradford #BradfordInternationalPasteupFestival
#Duckettlane #Bradford #urbansketches ready for the #bradfordinternationalpasteupfestival tomorrow. From midday Sat 23 at the 1in12 club then out into the lanes.
#Drawing by #urbansketch rules at a lovely music festival on the #artsbarge in #York this weekend.
Remnants of a #charcoal workshop I led at the annual #forestfest hosted by #bradfordforestschools
Some online #lifedrawing today as organised by @derycksart.bsky.social Like I used to do regularly and would like to get back to.
Off to #CarlisleZineFest at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social today. Here's some screenshots from another platform.
4 upcoming #DIY events in #NewcastleuponTyne Just one of em I can make personally.
Drew #bjbarham of @americanaquarium.bsky.social as he did a wonderful set at #GatesheadLittleTheatre #urbansketch #gigzine #gateshead #jumpinhotclub
For #wildflowerhour I have #snowdrops #daisies and, er some other stuff ( #wildflowerid ) around #Carlislecathedral on Friday. Look sorta groundsel-like and a bittercressy wotsit I'll get round to checking at some point.
#sketching of the #folktrain lot who go between #Newcastle and #BardonMill 3 times a year. And signs of natural now.
More #zine nonsense coming out of a #photocopier Still love #zines in the end days of my 40s. This one's about #bands and #battlejacket patches and will probably be free with my #Bradfordgigzine I have a few patient folk on #patreon too who get one of each.
I've made a massive poster. Here are bits of the draft from before I coloured it. A2 size. Can't wait for it to arrive in the post. #livesketching #urbansketching #allenvalleysfolkfestival
I have written the minutes for our #comics collective, the mighty #PaperJamComicsCollective Members get their copy at this month's meeting, (6.30 Tilleys on the 2nd Thursday of the month)
Pages from my newest zine (not printed yet) about #livesketching in #gigs in Bradford.
Trying to sort out photos of drawings I've liked. Here's a sample 4. A #Hexham #urbansketch and a #concertinapad done in the same style. Plus some #traxongpaper #lifedrawing and a #zinefair #minicomic I aim for more in 2026.
Welcome 2026. Witness the cat my boy drew. Reject the power structures and those nincompoops they let command em. Stay well together. Enjoy this trip around our sun.